A federal judge on Friday blocked President Trump’s executive order requiring proof of citizenship for elections.
Judge Denise J. Casper, of the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts, an Obama appointee, said U.S. states have a likelihood of success in their legal challenges to the order, The Associated Press reported.
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A hundred years ago, roughly 10 percent of recent American high-school graduates attended college. Today that figure is 61 percent. Are we better off?
Hardly.
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New documents obtained by The Ohio Star reveal that Attorney General Dave Yost participated in an all-expense-paid trip to France that was organized by the nonprofit Attorney General Alliance (AGA), which received more than $3 million in donations from Pfizer’s political action committee over less than a decade.
These documents, including an event programming and email correspondence between Yost’s office and AGA, reveal previously unreported details about the conference, including that Yost submitted an invoice for $12,184.60 to be reimbursed by AGA for his and his wife’s flights to France.
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The Center for Transyouth Health and Development (CTYHD) at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), one of the largest youth transgender clinics in the nation, is shutting its doors due to increasing pressure from the Trump administration, The Los Angeles Times reported Thursday.
CTYHD — which has provided transgender-related procedures such as puberty blockers, hormones and surgeries to thousands of minors — will close on July 22, according to internal emails reviewed by The Los Angeles Times. Hospital leadership cited “increasingly severe impacts of federal administrative actions and proposed policies” against transgender procedures performed on minors.
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Far-left Democratic New York State Rep. Zohran Mamdani, once a long-shot candidate, appears to have emerged as a top contender in the New York City mayoral race — with disgraced former Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo no longer viewed as the sole frontrunner.
While several recent polls have shown Cuomo leading ahead of the June 24 the Democratic primary, one survey showed Mamdani, an open socialist, ahead by 4 percentage points. The two men, along with five other candidates, clashed during the final New York City Democratic mayoral debate on Thursday night, with both Cuomo and Mamdani facing heated attacks from each other as well as some of the lower-polling candidates.
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The Department of the Interior (DOI) moved to repeal a Biden-era regulation on coal mining on Thursday.
The 2024 rule enacted under former President Joe Biden added additional regulations on the coal industry and gave the federal government more power to conduct reviews on states for potential rule violations. Biden cracked down on the coal industry by enforcing stringent regulations on coal-fired power plants and blocking new federal leases on coal mining, though President Donald Trump has moved to boost the coal industry, arguing that the power source is vital for the grid and national security.
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A federal appeals court quickly halted a lower court’s order directing President Donald Trump to turn over control of the National Guard to California Thursday night.
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals allowed Trump to keep the National Guard in Los Angeles at least through Tuesday, when it scheduled a hearing to consider the issue.
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Curbing illegal immigration, increasing border security, and deporting illegal criminals are important pillars on which President Donald Trump won the popular vote, and border security continues to be one of the president’s greatest strengths according to new public opinion data.
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The masked man on the motorcycle, the one who waved a Mexican flag in front of a torched car as Los Angeles police stood by, will soon be famous. His identity remains unknown, his image iconic – but for all the wrong reasons.
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General Motors (GM) quietly backed away from its high-profile pledge to phase out gasoline-powered vehicles over the next decade, effectively abandoning the electric vehicle (EV) transition it once championed, E&E News reported Thursday.
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Three Congressmen from Arizona, along with a Texas Congressman, sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) on Wednesday urging Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick not to terminate the Tomato Suspension Agreement (TSA). The DOC announced its intent to withdraw from the 2019 Tomato Suspension Agreement with Mexico on April 14, 2025, with termination effective July 14, 2025. This will result in 20.91 percent tariffs on tomatoes from Mexico.
Reps. Andy Biggs (R-AZ-05), Elijah Crane (R-AZ-02), Juan Ciscomani (R-AZ-06), and Tony Gonzales (R-TX-23) warned that up to 50,000 jobs will be lost in Arizona and Texas if the TSA is terminated. Critics contended that Mexico was dumping its tomatoes at rates lower than fair market price on the U.S. market, so should be required to pay the 20.91 percent tariff penalty for dumping.
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The Senate confirmed former Missouri Republican Rep. Billy Long as the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) commissioner on Thursday in a 53-44 vote.
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Israel launched a strike on Iranian territory on Thursday, just hours after President Donald Trump warned that such a move would likely derail diplomatic talks with Tehran on denuclearization.
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The Senate confirmed former Missouri Republican Rep. Billy Long as the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) commissioner on Thursday in a 53-44 vote.
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Brevard County, Florida, Sheriff Wayne Ivey warned any left-wing rioters on Thursday that they will end up “graveyard dead” if they assault any law enforcement officers.
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Senator Alex Padilla, a California Democrat, was handcuffed and removed from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s press conference in Los Angeles on Thursday after causing a disruption.
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Oral arguments were heard Thursday in a lawsuit for a case involving two Michigan brothers wearing “Let’s Go Brandon” apparel to school.
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The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) on Thursday released 1,450 more pages of documents on the 1968 assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, D-N.Y.
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The ongoing riots in Los Angeles over immigration enforcement have taken on a decidedly nationalist character, with rioters and supporters invoking Mexico’s past ownership of much of the western United States to claim a heritage and tie to the land that predates American ownership.
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Los Angeles Democratic Mayor Karen Bass and over 30 other mayors of nearby cities on Wednesday called for an end to federal immigration enforcement raids amid protests.
Protests in Los Angeles turned violent over the weekend after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducted raids last week, resulting in detentions and deportations of illegal immigrants. The violent protests led to President Trump sending the National Guard and Marines to the city over California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) objection.
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Many media outlets are reporting that President Biden deported more illegal immigrants than President Trump in both his first term and at the pace of his current one.
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The State Department has authorized a partial evacuation of the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, Iraq while allowing military dependents to leave various locations around the Middle East, U.S. and Iraqi sources told Reuters on Wednesday.
The officials told Reuters the move was made due to “heightened security risks,” but did not specify which threats prompted the decision. Tensions between Iran and Israel have put the region on high alert as Israel has said its forces would strike Iran if ongoing nuclear talks do not bear fruit.
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President Donald Trump announced Wednesday morning that a new U.S.-China trade agreement, negotiated in London earlier this week, is “done.”
Talks resumed after the May 12 trade truce between the two countries collapsed, with each side accusing the other of failing to uphold the terms of the agreement. The new deal restores the earlier framework while addressing ongoing disputes around rare earth elements, according to Trump and other U.S. officials.
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An avowedly Communist revolutionary group with ties to a China-linked Marxist funding network has been at the forefront of organizing nationwide protests opposing illegal immigration crackdowns by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) — including protests which spiraled into violent riots in parts of Los Angeles.
The Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) — which openly calls for revolution to bring down the current American system and which publicly sympathizes with murderous Communist regimes — has been a leader in organizing and fueling anti-ICE demonstrations in LA as well as in other cities nationwide.
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Formerly conservative heavyweights, FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino are rapidly losing the confidence of the MAGA movement, with watchdog group Judicial Watch becoming the latest to blast their failure to deliver transparency this week.
In an investigative bulletin from the organization, Judicial Watch reporters highlighted their prior support for the pair, but lamented that the pair appeared to have been swept up by bureau norms.
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Google on Tuesday offered voluntary buyouts to U.S.-based employees across multiple divisions — including its search, advertising, research and engineering teams — as the tech giant continues trimming costs while simultaneously funding massive AI investments.
The “voluntary exit program” affects workers in Google’s Knowledge and Information division, which houses search and ad operations, as well as engineering, marketing and communications teams. Some divisions are also requiring remote workers living within 50 miles of an office to return to hybrid schedules or face potential terminations.
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Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is deploying National Guard troops across his state ahead of expected protests against immigration raids, seeking to prevent the violence that has swept Los Angeles in recent days.
Abbott announced in an early Wednesday X post that he will send the troops “to ensure peace and order” in the coming days. The governor had deployed them to San Antonio by Monday night to prepare for left-wing protests planned for Wednesday and Saturday, the San Antonio Express-News reported.
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The rioting in Los Angeles may dominate the headlines this week, but progressives in America—and their corporate allies—have two cards to play. Along with fomenting racial strife in order to achieve “equity,” they are systematically shutting down production of affordable energy to cope with the “climate emergency.” Both of these cards are strategic, part of a multi-decade effort, with the ultimate objective being the destruction of America’s cultural unity and material prosperity. The motive is as old as history itself: centralization of power. The goal is a reversion to the mean, written across the centuries, of an elite few oppressing the many.
The irony is thick. A narrative of oppression drives the rioters in Los Angeles, even as they strive to tear down the least oppressive civilization the world has ever known, a civilization that defied the momentum of history, a civilization that embraced meritocracy and the opportunity for private ownership. A civilization where a middle class actually formed a majority of the population. A civilization where discrimination and racism had all but disappeared, a country where anyone who worked hard could join the ranks of the prosperous. That was the American reality until around 2008.
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The Trump Administration’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirmed on Wednesday that Emiliano Garduno-Galvez, a previously deported illegal migrant from Mexico, will be charged for attempted murder in the ongoing Los Angeles riots.
June 7 footage from the DHS shows Garduno-Galvez lighting a Molotov cocktail behind a tree as officers approached. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Los Angeles arrested Garduno-Galvez on June 9, according to a DHS press release, and he was charged with attempted murder the next day.
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As a former Ohio Treasurer, I know the sheer impact farmers have on Ohio’s economy — and I am concerned that out-of-state lobbyists are trying to undermine President Trump’s agricultural trade deals to rig the free market against our state’s hardworking growers.
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday confirmed that he would expand immigration enforcement operations to other major American cities amid ongoing riots in Los Angeles.
Images of violent rioters flying the Mexican flag in Los Angeles have gone viral in recent days as people clash with law enforcement over Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids.
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Federal Reserve kingpin Jerome Powell is busy doing what he does best: sabotaging a prosperous economy so that President Donald Trump and his fellow Republicans lose popularity. He’s also ignoring Trump, whom voters will judge for the economy’s performance and whom the Constitution says runs the executive branch of which the Fed is a part.
This is old hat for Powell, who, after being installed by Trump in 2018, got straight to work undermining his boss’s economic recovery.
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As parts of Los Angeles burn under the fury of riots, there are burning questions in Washington about who instigated the protests against immigration enforcement operations and whether any funding is coming from foreign sources.
FBI Director Kash Patel told Just the News the bureau is investigating the money trail behind those organizing and promoting the demonstrations spreading across the country.
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U.S. small businesses owners’ optimism rose slightly in May, according to a survey released Tuesday from the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB).
The NFIB’s Small Business Optimism Index, a measure of owners’ outlook on the future of their businesses and the economy in general, rose by three points in May to 98.8, slightly above the 51-year average of 98. This marked the first time the NFIB’s Small Business Optimism Index has increased thus far in 2025.
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Newly declassified intelligence now shows that most of the reported rise in the number of domestic terrorism cases — cited by the Biden administration as a basis for instituting a sweeping expansion in federal law enforcement — was actually tied to one single event that tipped the scales in their favor: the Capitol riot of January 6, 2021.
The artificial inflation of the domestic terrorism threat was revealed in newly-declassified intelligence records from early 2022 made public by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard earlier this year.
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The Trump administration offered one more major incentive for illegal migrants who choose to leave the U.S. of their own volition.
Illegal immigrants who choose to self-deport through the CBP Home app will not only be offered a free flight back to their home country and a $1,000 stipend, but also forgiveness of any fines incurred for failing to follow through on a previous deportation order, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The announcement comes as the Trump administration works to remove as many illegal migrants as possible in a cost-effective manner.
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In perhaps the strongest sign yet that President Donald Trump’s efforts to deport illegal immigrants, encourage self-deportation, and clear the workforce of foreign competition is working, the St. Louis Fed reported that more than one million foreign-born workers left the workforce since March.
In March of this year, the foreign-born labor force amounted to 33.719 million people, according to the St. Louis Fed. By May, however, that figure had fallen to 32.706 million, reflecting a drop of 1.013 million foreign-born workers.
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The debate over the Big, Beautiful Bill went next-level last week when Elon Musk sent out a series of rage posts on X targeting President Trump that were more personal than substantive. But for all the wailing and gnashing of teeth about the bill from the likes of Elon, Rand Paul, Thomas Massie – even Andy Biggs, who felt the need to commiserate with Rocket Boy about voting for it – there really is no debate. Senate Republicans get to pass this bill. That’s right, and for the pleasure of getting to pass it, they can also feel a certain amount of pride in codifying Trump’s campaign promises, a concept which is in short supply these days. Most politicians will lie to get elected. Not Trump. He actually fully intends to keep his promises, which makes him one of the most honorable people in the public arena.
But let me explain why Republicans should be eager to pass this bill: their own self-preservation, which is one of the most motivating forces for the overwhelming majority of them. The Big, Beautiful Bill makes the Trump tax cuts permanent. That alone, right there, should be more than enough incentive to pass the bill, because if they don’t, Republicans will trigger upwards of a 60% tax increase, and, according to Russ Vought, head of the Office of Management and Budget, also trigger a recession. Now I’ve been in D.C. for 25 years, with a dad who served in Congress for a decade. I’ve seen Republicans in D.C. up close for many years, and I’ve reached the conclusion that many of them are intellectually impaired and will go out of their way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. But not passing this bill and raising taxes and triggering a recession, going into a midterm year? That would be viciously stupid.
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It has long been acknowledged that the United States’ energy infrastructure isn’t particularly secure, a concern exacerbated by the lack of a central planning process for our nation’s piecemeal electric grid. Presidential administrations and Congress have been slow to address the problem, apparently daunted by the mere size and scope of the challenges the needed upgrades would present.
That needs to change now. The recent news that China apparently installed hidden “kill switches” in solar equipment sold to the U.S. was the latest in a long list of reasons to be concerned about our electricity infrastructure and the foolhardy rush to replace traditional energy sources with so-called “renewables” using technology that is often sourced from China.
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Singer/songwriter Vencent Hickerson, aka Bigg Vinny, releases his new song and video “Walmart Drip” exclusively with The Tennessee Star. The latest single describes what would happen if Toby Keith took Bruno Mars and Snoop Dogg on a trip to Walmart.
The song came from a day of shopping at Walmart with his wife and kids. “She said she just needed one thing, which meant $500,” Bigg Vinny explained. “When I was there, I saw a glorious swimsuit set with a beach view and palm trees printed on it. I immediately put it on when we got home; I looked at my wife and said, ‘Dang girl, look at all this DRIP!'”
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Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday announced that he is replacing all 17 members of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) independent advisory panel on vaccines.
The move is the health secretary’s latest in his efforts to reshape the department and restore transparency and faith in vaccines. The panelists are not typically political appointees, but Kennedy has accused the members of having conflicts of interest.
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Hundreds of U.S. Marines are reportedly being deployed to Los Angeles to help control the riots sparked by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity in the city over the weekend, multiple outlets reported Monday.
Several hundred Marines will arrive in the city over the next 24 hours, primarily to support the National Guard and Los Angeles Police Department, according to reports from The Wall Street Journal, ABC News and CNN. The riots have caused widespread damage and violence across the city, with protestors violently clashing with authorities in response to ICE raids targeting illegal immigrants residing in the city.
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California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom sued the Trump administration on Monday over President Trump’s deployment of the state’s National Guard, after a violent night of protests over federal immigration-enforcement sweeps.
According to the lawsuit, Trump overstepped his authority by calling the National Guard despite Newsom’s protest, invoking a law that lets the president to do so under threat from a foreign “invasion” or “rebellion” against the U.S. government, The Washington Post reported.
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Paid agitators and rioters, including those with the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA), attacked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers tasked with apprehending violent criminals off of the streets.
Over the weekend, ICE agents arrested 118 illegal foreign nationals, including five gang members and those with criminal histories of “alien smuggling,” assault, cruelty to children, domestic violence, drug trafficking and robbery.
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A Minnesota state representative on Monday admitted to being an illegal alien during remarks on the state House floor and said her father had misrepresented his familial relations in the paperwork.
“My father as the one processing the paperwork, put my grandmother down as his mother. And so I am illegal in this country. My parents are illegal here in this country,” said the representative. The speaker in the video appeared to be state Rep. Kaohly Vang Her, DFL.
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An advocacy group at the center of the organizing efforts of the anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles has long raised money through ActBlue, the controversial Democratic Party-oriented non-profit entity that is under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice and Congress.
According to the social media pages of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA), the group was formed in 1986 to “advance the human and civil rights of immigrants and refugees.” Its mission is to “educate, organize, and advocate.” The landing page of CHIRLA’s website solicits donations through another entity, called Funraise.
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The Justice Department (DOJ) on Monday charged a citizen of China with smuggling biological material into the United States and making false statements.
The charges come a week after the DOJ charged two other Chinese researchers with attempting to smuggle a fungus dubbed “Fusarium graminearum,” into the U.S., which it claimed scientific research “classifies as a potential agroterrorism weapon.”
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A George Soros-backed political action committee (PAC) is launching a multimillion-dollar effort to flip Texas blue, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
Democrats haven’t won a statewide election in the Republican stronghold in decades. However, Texas Majority PAC, which has received millions of dollars in funding from Soros, hopes to change that trend with its new “Blue Texas” initiative, according to the WSJ.
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The Supreme Court gave the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) the greenlight to access Social Security Administration (SSA) data on Friday.
The Trump administration asked the justices in May to pause a district court judge’s preliminary injunction preventing the SSA DOGE team from accessing certain records.
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Job creation and wage growth exceeded expectations again as the U.S. economy and labor market remain solid thanks to President Trump’s pro-growth, pro-energy policies. Friday’s jobs report showed 139,000 jobs were created last month, and the unemployment rate stayed at 4.2%.
Small businesses and the private sector were responsible for these new jobs, with substantial gains in the leisure and hospitality sector and more declines in federal government positions. That’s a stark contrast from last year’s labor market, which was propped up by nearly 500,000 government jobs. Small businesses are confident and staffing up for summer.
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